Canada Launches Global Trade Complaint Against US Over Use of Duties

Canada Launches Global Trade Complaint Against US Over Use of Duties
Logs are unloaded at Murray Brothers Lumber Company woodlot in Madawaska, Ont., on April 25, 2017. Canada has launched a wide-ranging attack against U.S. trade practices in a broad international complaint over American use of punitive duties. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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WASHINGTON—Canada has launched a wide-ranging attack against American trade practices in a broad international complaint over that country’s use of punitive duties—a move the United States is calling “broad and ill-advised.”

In a complaint that’s dramatically ramping up tensions between the two neighbours in the midst of major trade negotiations, Canada wants the World Trade Organization to examine the use of duties in the United States, alleging that they violate international law for five reasons.